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Nov 7, 2025, 6:15 PM

Parashat Vayera: A Jewish–Christian Dialogue

This week’s Torah portion opens with the story of three angels visiting Abraham and Sarah. The guests bring joyful news: within a year, the elderly couple will have a long-awaited son - Isaac. This story became a cornerstone of Christian...

Oct 24, 2025, 6:42 PM

Noach: All Humanity Comes from One Source

The sections that follow the story of the Flood may seem, at first glance, among the most tedious in the Torah: long genealogical lists tracing generations from Noah to Abraham. Like last week’s portion, this one is filled with...

Oct 17, 2025, 1:08 PM

B’reishit: A Dispute for the Sake of Heaven

“And God created humankind in the divine image, creating it in the image of God - creating them male and female.” Genesis 1:27 “Surely, if you do right, there is uplift. But if you do not do right sin couches...

May 24, 2024, 6:09 PM

Jewish Unity – Achdut Yisrael

Reflections after visiting CCAR Convention, Philadelphia, March 2024 The Jewish world in a post-October 7th reality can be interpreted from two different perspectives – the brand new one, which never happened before in Jewish history; or the return to the...

May 9, 2024, 7:41 PM

Kdoshim: the laws of hatred

You shall not hate your kinsfolk in your heart The verse from our weekly portion (Leviticus 19:17) presents us a scholastic dilemma. Is there a person in this world who never hated in their heart? No doubt, there is no...

May 1, 2024, 11:24 AM

Acharei Mot: to walk the path

Parashat Acharei Mot establishes boundaries for visiting the Sanctuary and articulates the consequences for desecrating it. Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover...

Nov 3, 2023, 1:16 PM

Vayera: Passing the covenant to next generation

The end of parashat 'Lekh Lekha', the last week's one, teaches us about the most prominent covenant of Jewish people with God - b'rit milah - the covenant of circumcision. It's not the most prominent for Abraham, maybe; the...

Oct 27, 2023, 6:24 PM

Lekh Lekha: Against the whole world

Midrash Bereshit Rabba explains that Avraham Avinu was called ivri - Hebrew - because he was the one who stood up against the whole society, that he belonged to. The religion of Sumer, the original land of Abram's family,...

Oct 12, 2023, 5:47 AM

Bereshit: The Circle of Life

This drash is written during the hardest days, the State of Israel experienced in 50 years. Hopefully, it will give its readers some hope for better future. This week I had an opportunity to learn a Hassidic commentary on the...

Oct 8, 2020, 2:56 AM

A scum with the permission of Torah

Two weeks ago, for the first time in the relatively short history of the State of Israel, the Supreme Court of Israel addressed the issue of the boundaries for the freedom of speech for the state-funded rabbis. The Supreme...

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About Me

Rabbi Binyamin Daniel Minich leads Kehilat Daniel in Jaffa and works at the Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism in Tel Aviv. He is a PhD student at the department of Jewish philosophy of Bar Ilan University and a rabbinic fellow of Beit Midrash Har'el in Jerusalem. Rabbi Minich is a proud member of the Israeli Council of Progressive Rabbis (MARAM) and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He also serves as the chair of MARAM - the Israeli Council for Reform Rabbis and at the board of the Israeli Association of Crimean Jews. Benny is married to Dr. Elena Minich and together they raise three children - Hadar Yosef, Levi Moshe and Haleli Yerushalaim.

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